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The road trip has reached the end of the road. Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, Dave Grohl’s absorbing documentary series about music in America, ends Friday where for so many it all began: New York City, home to indie rock bands The Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and lesser-known but no less influential garage-rock acts of the early 2000s like The Walkmen, The Mooney Suzuki, These Are Powers and The Rapture.

NP Sessions invites musicians to perform stripped-down versions of their hits or favourite songs. This week, First Aid Kit performs 'My Silver Lining'
Swedish sister duo Johanna and Klara Söderberg have a tendency of making people cry in public.

CBGB
Two stars out of five
Starring: Alan Rickman, Malin Akerman, Kyle Gallner, Mickey Sumner
Directed by: Randall Miller
Running time: 101 minutes
Parental guidance: Brief nudity, drug use, coarse language
There’s a comic book feel to CBGB, a biography of the music club in New York where punk rock was born, and it’s not only because it’s structured like a graphic novel.

How do you follow up a successful soundtrack featuring the twin towers of music: Arcade Fire and Taylor Swift? If you're the music supervisor for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, you get Coldplay, Christina Aguilera and a cornucopia of respected musical acts to create original music.

For Patti Smith, Toronto means long nights at the SkyDome watching the Blue Jays.
Along with her husband, MC5 guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith, the punk rock revolutionary says she spent many evenings during the 1992 and 1993 seasons -- the glory years of Canada’s baseball team -- driving from the couple’s Detroit home to see their favourite pitcher, Jack Morris.